Ah!---“Wild”-times!…Indeed!
Way-back
yonder, in that latest century-past, 1989, we sold out all
of
our Midwest-holdings and uprooted the entire-family on a sojourn
westward
to that “Great-Northwest” to the Paradise!-Oregon!
Wow!
No-Fool! Like an old-one! That’s true!
Sure--enough! I reckon-so!
Had
“just-shy-of” 400-acres contained in three-parcel farms, one of
them
over 200-acres; we lived “quite”-well enjoying an excellent-
domicile
, the old-farmstead with house, barn, out-buildings located
a
half-mile from our residence. We raced our riding-horses in the rock-
bottom
creek, deer-hunted, grew winter-wheat and leafy alfalfa-hay.
We
ate-well! Practiced Christian-generosity!
Enjoyed a swimming-pool!
Daughter-Beth
was accepted to Willamette University Law-School in Salem.
So?
We sold-out (liquidated), packed the ole-wagon
and headed-west.
Even
took the critters with-us! Dogs! Doves! Horses! And, plants!
Z.
Tyler celebrated his 2nd-birthday “on-the-road” in Wyoming. Fun!
Lady-Candice
and I had shuttled our Mustang to Oregon prior to our
“Official”-move;
I had given it to Candy for her 40th-birthday; one-
year
and two-months later, Becky turned 16, Candy gave her that car!
We
had a-“time”! In Rocky Mountain National Park we were at the
gift-shop
area when a mountain hail-storm struck out-of-the-blue! Wow!
I
pulled into a “turn-out” to put the top up on our Mustang convertible!
As
I latched-tight the toggle-locks and rolled-up the windows against the
ice-stone
onslaught, a couple on a motorcycle pulled up beside-us; we
were
snug and safe as hailstones bounced off the pair’s helmets. Ouch!
As
we pulled-away, I opened the-window and said, “Put the top up!”
We
made “Good”-time! That pony ran an
easy-90! Flirted with-100!
Somewhere
out Idaho-way, we caught a Texas-twister-man! Another
“Free-spirit!”
He ran “point”! We “drafted” his-tail across the state
of
Idaho to just west of Boise where our “point”-man exited. Whew!
That
red-Corvette could-fly! Our-pony could run total-wild! Too!
After
2-years in “God’s”-country, we moseyed down Tennessee-way!
Beth
finished her Law-degree at Nashville’s Vanderbilt-University!
We
travelled the Great-Northwest on our sabbatical to Oregon! Had
myriad
Fantastic-adventures there! Let the
good-times roll! Great!
Might-not
have amounted to much “Good”! Sure
had a “wild”-time!
Amen!
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